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- Ten of the 12 University of Fort Hare accused are out on bail of R50 000 each.
- They are charged with defrauding the university of R171 million.
- The State is set to oppose bail on two of the accused on Friday.
The Dimbaza Magistrate’s Court in the Eastern Cape granted bail of R50 000 each to 10 of the 12 accused in the University of Fort Hare fraud and corruption case on Thursday afternoon.
Two of the accused - Terrence Joubert of Tarlec Security Solutions and Anwar Khan of Pentagon Group - will remain in custody until Friday where the State is set to oppose their bail applications.
Khan is former bodyguard of slain rapper AKA.
Those granted bail are: Dr Paul Tladi; his wife Lucrecia Davids; Anna Smith; Mbulelo Gingcana; Louis Mawila; Nozuko Mabombo; Thamsanqa Sonjica, and service providers Bradley Conradie, Craig Retief and Nthabiseng Makhoba.
Magistrate Nkosinathi Mjekula's set bail conditions that the accused had to hand over their passports to the investigating officer and report to their nearest police stations every Wednesday.
The accused are among 14 people who were arrested over the Easter weekend. They are accused of defrauding the university of R171 million.
Two of them - Sarah Burger and Gosain Wayne van Haar - were released on bail of R50 000 each last week.
Accused number one Isaac Plaatjies abandoned his bail bid last week.
The accused will be back in court on 9 May.
